A big-hearted little boy from Burbage has touched the hearts of the village by launching his own bakery business to raise money for children who are fleeing Ukraine.

Seven-year-old Max Thatcher was so moved by TV coverage of the refugees escaping the war that he hatched a plan to harness his grandmother’s baking skills so he could doorstep the village selling cakes for Ukraine.

“It was all his own doing,” said his grandmother Lorraine.

"He was watching the news from Ukraine on the television and he turned to me and said ‘Granny, we have to do something, can you bake me some cakes?”

So she baked dozens of fairy cakes, appropriately iced blue and yellow, and when Max came home from St Katharine’s School at Savernake he took trays of them and knocked on doors all around Burbage.

The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald: Max with his 'business card' declaring he is selling cakes for Ukrainian childrenMax with his 'business card' declaring he is selling cakes for Ukrainian children

“They’d been having Red Nose Day at school and he had red paint on his cheeks, but he didn’t want to stop to wash, he just wanted to get out there selling.

"We went to all the neighbours and he even wanted to sell some in the pub. People were so touched that one even gave him £10 for a cake."

Max has already raised £312 for the refugees, twice his target, and has set up a Just Giving page to raise more